THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, December 12, 1995 TAG: 9512120270
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: FISHING ON THE OUTER BANKS
SOURCE: DAMON TATEM
LENGTH: Short : 39 lines
Strong winds and chilly weather during the weekend kept most anglers indoors, but the few people who fished persistently were rewarded.
A 14-pound striper was landed on Nags Head Pier Saturday by Brad Bradley of Nags Head. Several keeper trout were landed on Fin-S lures the next morning.
In the surf, a few trout were beached from a slough north of Jennette's Pier late Saturday afternoon. Trout were landed from deeper sloughs in the Nags Head area on Mirrolures Sunday.
A good run of striped bass, many weighing as much as 25 pounds, developed along the beach on the north side of Oregon Inlet around 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Fish feeding along the shore attracted good numbers of birds, which brought anglers who cast lures into the area. Most of the fish were taken on Hopkins lures and Gator spoons.
In the Cape Point area, some speckled trout were landed by surf fishermen near the Cape Hatteras lighthouse late Saturday afternoon and again Sunday morning. Fishing along the beach south of Cape Point was slow.
No boats went offshore during the weekend, but quite a few anglers braved the chilly winds to fish in the Croatan Sound near the Manns Harbor bridge. Striper fishing was excellent in the area throughout the weekend. Plenty of fish were caught by anglers trolling beside the bridge. Good catches also were reported by anglers wading from the shore on the northwest side of the bridge.
Trout fishing should improve along the Dare coast as soon as the water clears along the beach.
The water temperature at the Army Corps of Engineers Pier in Duck was 44 degrees Monday. by CNB